Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 560 · Decided 23 April 2025
Pramila Devi & ORS. v. The State of Jharkhand & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 560 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 1695
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2551/2024
- Decided
- 23 April 2025
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3(1)(iv), 3(1)(g), 498A, 406, 420; SC/ST Act Section 3(1)(iv)
Headnote
The Additional Judicial Commissioner took cognizance against one V and appellants on 13.06.2019 in SC/ST Case No.08/2017. Whether the Additional Judicial cognizance has to record detailed reasons for taking cognizance; whether the FIR (u/ss.498A, 406 and 420 of the Penal Code, 1860 and s.3(1)(iv) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989) itself was instituted with mala fide intention and was liable to be
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